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Press Release

New BDA Hot Spot Areas Announced!

The Bowls Development Alliance [BDA] are delighted to announce that the following County Sport Partnerships have been appointed as Hot Spot Areas with effect of 1st January, 2015:


Active Cumbria  (Lead Officer – Bruce Lawson - Bruce.Lawson@cumbria.gov.uk

Lincolnshire Sport  (Lead Officer – Rachel Belcher - Rachel.Belcher@lincolnshiresport.com)

Northamptonshire Sport  (Lead Officer – Alex Le Guevel - ALeGuevel@northamptonshire.gov.uk)

Suffolk Sport  (Lead Officer – Ben Jackson - Ben.Jackson@eastsuffolk.gov.uk)

Somerset Activity & Sports Partnership  (Lead Officer – Jane Knowles - JKnowles@sasp.co.uk)

Sport Partnership Herefordshire & Worcestershire  (Lead Officer Sue Bentley - s.bentley@worc.ac.uk)

Appointed for an initial 12 month period, affiliated clubs within these areas will be able to enjoy the financial and non-financial support benefits associated with becoming a Hot Spot. Each Hot Spot will be hosting at least one Club Night in January to which all clubs within the region are invited to attend to find out more about the project, for more details please contact the relevant Lead Officer listed above.

For those clubs currently in one of the 2013-2015 BDA Hot Spots, namely;

Active Norfolk (Lead Officer – Ian Grange - ian.grange@activenorfolk.org)

Active Essex (Lead Officer – Margo Finnegan - Margo.Finnegan@ActiveEssex.org)

Active Sussex (Lead Officer – Sally Johnston - sjohnston@activesussex.org)

Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Sport  (Lead Officer – Hannah Milde - H.Milde@warwick.ac.uk)

The BDA are continuing to support clubs and other organisations within these areas despite the formal Hot Spot agreement coming to an end in March 2015, albeit through a slightly different structure. To find out more regarding the structure of financial and non-financial support from April 2015 onwards, the BDA in partnership with the County Sport Partnerships have arranged club evenings throughout January and February. For information about the event in your area, please contact the relevant Lead Officer listed above.

(Clubs within the Sport Nottinghamshire Hot Spot are unaffected as the formal Hot Spot agreement in this area remains active until March 2016.)

For further information please contact: Paul Humphreys on: 07557 819569
Email: paul@playbowls.org

Monday 1st December 2014

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